Bill Bowler Libri

Today is Wednesday 2nd October. If I am back in this very room in the Reform Club on Saturday 21st December by eight forty-five in the evening, I win. Phileas Fogg bets a small fortune that he can go round the world in eighty days a huge sum of money in 1872, worth more than a million pounds today.When he sets off on his amazing journey with his clever servant, Passepartout, they cannot afford the slightest delay. Will the two travelers have time to help Princess Aouda, when the brave and beautiful young woman is threatened with a cruel fate?Detective Fix believes that Mr Fogg is a bank robber, and plans to arrest him. Will that be the end of Phileas Fogg s chance to save his fortune?Real Reads are accessible texts designed to support the literacy development of primary and lower secondary age children while introducing them to the riches of our international literary heritage. Each book is a retelling of a work of great literature from one of the world s greatest cultures, fitted into a 64-page book, making classic stories, dramas and histories available to intelligent young readers as a bridge to the full texts, to language students wanting access to other cultures, and to adult readers who are unlikely ever to read the original versions.

Tristan and Isolde are in love, but Isolde must marry King Mark. So a happy love story seems impossible... The lovers meet every day but then, one night, King Mark finds them together. Now Tristan must leave the castle, but he is badly hurt and dying. Only Isolde can help him. Can Isolde find Tristan in time? Can their love survive?

This is a practical and imaginative addition to the New Headway. It helps students to express themselves clearly and confidently by training them in the key areas of pronunciation. There is practice of individual sounds, with a guide to suitable exercises for speakers of particular languages. There is a focus on lexical sets. Training is given in stress and intonation patterns for accurate, functional use. Help is provided with the features of connected speech.

This is a practical and imaginative addition to the New Headway. It helps students to express themselves clearly and confidently by training them in the key areas of pronunciation. There is practice of individual sounds, with a guide to suitable exercises for speakers of particular languages. There is a focus on lexical sets. Training is given in stress and intonation patterns for accurate, functional use. Help is provided with the features of connected speech.

Headway is a multi-level course for adults and young adults who want to use English both accurately and fluently. Grammar and vocabulary are taught and explained thoroughly, and all four languages skills are systematically developed. The Headway series combines traditional methods of language teaching and pore recent communicative approaches. Together, Headway Intermediate and headway Upper-Intermediate bring the student up to the level of Cambridge First Certificate. John and Liz Soars have many years of experience as teachers and teacher trainers. Both have worked et International House, London, and Liz was one of the chief examiners of the Cambridge/RSA Dip TEFL. Each level of Headway provides approximately 120 hours of teaching. Key features of Headway Intermediate include: Comprehensive coverage of the tense system and verb forms. Detailed treatment of grammar in two stages: first within the unit where it is introduced, and secondly, in a fuller version suitable for self-study and revision, in the Grammar section at the back of the book. Highly systematic skills development work. Authentic material and tasks to boost students' confidence in dealing with real English. This Workbook provides intensive extra practice and includes exercises to develop accuracy, systematic vocabulary work, and extra help with writing. It can also be used for self-study.

When Wallace the inventor meets Wendolene in her wool shop, he falls in love with her at once. But why does her dog, Preston, hate Wallace's dog, Gromit? Then, after Wallace's new sheep-shaving and pullover-making machine falls into the wrong hands, things start to go very wrong. Can Gromit save Wallace from the danger of a 'close shave'?

A multi-level course, supported by a broad range of supplementary material, which targets both accuracy and fluency in all four language skills.